By the Numbers: UFC 160

They took different routes to victory on Saturday night, but
Cain
Velasquez and Junior dos
Santos appear to be on a collision course for a third meeting
at some point in 2013. Velasquez, the reigning heavyweight
champion, dispatched Antonio
Silva in timely fashion in their rematch, stopping the massive
Brazilian with strikes 1:21 into the opening round of the UFC 160
main event.

Meanwhile, dos Santos engaged in a thrilling battle with the
heavy-handed Mark Hunt in
the evening’s co-headliner, flooring the “Super Samoan” twice en
route to earning a tension-filled technical knockout victory at the
4:18 mark of round three. The records show that Velasquez and dos
Santos are 1-1 in head-to-head meetings, so a trilogy only makes
sense. Here is a by-the-numbers look at UFC 160, with statistics
courtesy of FightMetric.com.

.580: Career significant striking accuracy for
Cain
Velasquez, tying him with Randy
Couture for No. 5 all-time in the UFC. The American Kickboxing
Academy product landed 18 of 28 significant strikes in his victory
over Silva.

5: Total strikes landed by Silva in two losses to
Velasquez. The Brazilian was outlanded 18 to 2 on Saturday and 53
to 3 at UFC 146.

4:58: Total time of the two meetings between
Velasquez and Silva. The champion stopped “Bigfoot” 1:21 into the
opening frame at UFC 160 and 3:36 into round one at UFC 146.

2: Knockout losses in 17 professional MMA bouts
for Mark
Hunt, who was stopped by a spinning hook kick from Junior dos
Santos in the UFC 160 co-headliner. Hunt’s only other knockout
loss came at the hands of Melvin
Manhoef in 18 seconds at a K-1 Dynamite “Power of Courage” on
Dec. 31, 2008.

41: Total strikes by which Rick Story
outlanded Mike Pyle in
the first round of their 170-pound meeting. Story nearly finished
the bout with heavy punches in the opening frame, but Pyle survived
to earn a split-decision triumph.

12: Significant strikes by which Dennis
Bermudez outlanded Max
Holloway in the third round of their featherweight encounter.
Bermudez also went 3-for-3 on takedowns in the frame, helping the
“TUF 14” alum earn a controversial split-decision victory. Holloway
outlanded Bermudez 51 to 37 in significant strikes in rounds one
and two combined.

21: Takedowns landed, in 27 attempts, by Khabib
Nurmagomedov in his unanimous decision triumph over Abel
Trujillo. The American Kickboxing Academy product was at his
most prolific in round three, when he landed nine of 11
takedowns.

0: Takedowns landed, in 13 attempts, by
Nurmagomedov in the last bout where he attempted at least one
takedown, a unanimous verdict over Gleison
Tibau at UFC 148.

17: Age difference in years between the oldest
fighter on the UFC 160 bill, Hunt (39), and the youngest, Holloway
(21). Holloway was 10 years old when Hunt won the 2001 K-1 World
Grand Prix Championship.

553: Days since Brian
Bowles’ last Octagon appearance, a second-round submission
defeat to Urijah Faber
at UFC 139. The former WEC bantamweight champion also had a 362-day
layoff from 2010 to 2011. The Hardcore Gym representative fell to
George
Roop via second-round TKO on Saturday.